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Lessons learnt by government departments from Sir Desmond de Silva’s Report of the Patrick Finucane Review

A report by the Cabinet Secretary, the Secretary of State for Defence and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | 16 January 2015

When the report by Sir Desmond de Silva into the murder of Patrick Finucane was published in 2012, the Prime Minister committed to publish the lessons learnt by government departments. Departments and agencies have carefully considered the report and described both the action taken in response and h...

The murder of Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane was part of British state policy to infiltrate, manipulate and direct terror groups during the Northern Ireland Troubles, Belfast high court has heard. Paramilitary organisations such as the Ulster Defence Association which murdered the solicitor were able t...

The Prime Minister's refusal to hold a public inquiry in to the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane was morally and legally indefensible, a court has been told. A barrister representing Mr Finucane's wife Geraldine alleged David Cameron rejected an inquiry into claims of state collusion with th...

UK response to de Silva report on Pat Finucane: Lessons learnt by government departments from Sir Desmond de Silva’s Report of the Patrick Finucane Review

David Cameron | 16 January 2015

The Prime Minister made a statement to Parliament on lessons learnt by government from Sir Desmond de Silva’s Report of the Patrick Finucane Review. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland appointed Sir Desmond de Silva QC in October 2011 to conduct an independent review into the question of Sta...

Judge orders Finucane documents disclosure

Barry Mc Caffery, The Detail | 23 April 2015

THE British government has been ordered to hand over minutes of cabinet meetings at which the decision was made to refuse a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. Judge Ben Stephens today (Tuesday) ordered that minutes of cabinet meetings in July 2011 and correspondence between MI5 and the...

24 years after Finucane killing, the damage limitation continues

Barry McCaffery, The Detail | 12 February 2013

TODAY marks 24 years since solicitor Pat Finucane was shot dead in a killing which has become a defining symbol of the state’s complicity in the Troubles. The government-commissioned report into the murder has yielded secrets of the “dirty war” which still have the power to shock – such as the exist...

Britain admits collusion after 23 years, but still no public inquiry

Susan McKay, Irish Independant | 13 December 2012

GERALDINE Finucane has always been clear. What she needs to know about the murder of her husband is not who pulled the trigger but who was pulling their strings. She and her family have spent 23 years campaigning for the truth. Now Desmond de Silva has found that the British state colluded in Pat Fi...

British, Irish authorities 'aware of death threat'

Gerry Moriarty, The Irish Times | 14 December 2012

Department of Foreign Affairs officials are to go through old Maryfield Secretariat files to check if there are records about the Charles Haughey government warning the Northern Ireland Office of threats to the lives of Belfast solicitors, including Pat Finucane, it was confirmed last night. They ar...

Press Statement Pat Finucane Centre

PFC | 12 December 2012

The British prime minister, David Cameron, has today described loyalist/ state collusion revealed in the de Silva review relating to the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane as "unbelievably ghastly". The Pat Finucane Centre, however, believes those words would be better applied to the British governmen...

Speech by Geraldine Finucane at the unveiling of a mural in West Belfast to commemorate Pat Finucane

Geraldine Finucane | 09 December 2012

I would like to welcome all of you to this event to mark and commemorate the continuing legacy of my late husband, Pat Finucane. Since Pat’s death, as you all know, our family has been involved in an international campaign seeking the establishment of an independent public inquiry into the circumsta...

Press Release by Finucane Family re. British Govt/de Silva Review

PFC | 13 November 2012

Following the announcement today by the NI Secretary of State, Theresa Villiers MP, that the de Silva Review would be published during the week beginning 10th December 2012, the Finucane family reiterated their call for a full public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the murder of Pat Finuc...

Pat Finucane murder: Family oppose security check

BBC News | 31 August 2012

A government security check on a new report into the loyalist murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane will further undermine the credibility of the document, his family have claimed. Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers said a thorough check prior to publication was necessary to rule out sec...

The applicant is Geraldine Finucane, c/o Madden & Finucane, Solicitors, 88 Castle Street, Belfast BT1 1HE. 2. The applicant seeks the following relief: a) An order of certiorari quashing the decision to hold “a review into the death of Patrick Finucane”; b) A declaration that the decision to establi...

US Congressman Smith Calls for Independent Inquiry of Murder of Human Rights Lawyer

PFC | 17 May 2011

Smith: Justice has not been served in 1989 Finucane murder WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-4), Chairman of the US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission) today reiterated the urgent call for the British government to launch a full, independent, and public judic...

Full public inquiry into murder of Pat Finucane/ Family opposed proposal for restricted probe/ Timeline

Allison Morris, Irish News | 13 May 2011

The British government is to announce within weeks plans to hold a full public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. The Irish News understands that a decision has been made at the highest level that an extensive inquiry should be allowed into the 1989 killing, although the exac...